Intelligence

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect

There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence

It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished

“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing

Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change